Intelligencer
The Cut
Vulture
The Strategist
Curbed
Grub Street
Magazine
Subscribe to the Magazine
Give a Gift Subscription
Buy Back Issues
Current Issue Contents
New York
Shop
Subscribe
Sign In
Account
Profile
Sign Out
Menu
Menu
Close
Close
TV
Movies
Comedy
Music
TV Recaps
What to Stream
Books
Theater
Art
Awards
Podcasts
About
Newsletters
Vulture Insiders
Video
Vulture Festival
Like Us
Follow Us
Follow
NYMag.com
New York Magazine
Intelligencer
Vulture
The Cut
The Strategist
Grub Street
Curbed
Search
Search
Close
Subscribe
Give A
Gift
Menu
Menu
Close
Close
TV
Movies
Comedy
Music
TV Recaps
What to Stream
Books
Theater
Art
Awards
Podcasts
About
Newsletters
Vulture Insiders
Video
Vulture Festival
Like Us
Follow Us
Follow
NYMag.com
New York Magazine
Intelligencer
Vulture
The Cut
The Strategist
Grub Street
Curbed
Search
Search
Close
MOST RECENT ARTICLES BY:
Victoria Johnson
See all their articles from across New York Magazine
aretha franklin
Aug. 21, 2018
How Aretha Franklin Ended Up Singing the
A Different World
Theme Song
“Everyone had to admit that once she sang it, it didn’t need to be sung again.”
chat room
June 19, 2018
Mara Brock Akil on
Love Is
and Whether She’d Make a
Girlfriends
Movie
“You can tell any studio in town: If they got 50 to 60 million, I already have the script.”
Feb. 28, 2018
Lupita Nyong’o Has a Great Story About the
Black Panther
Cast Singing Snoop Dogg
“The drummers started drumming to ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot’ and then the entire crowd joined in.”
comics
Feb. 13, 2018
Black Panther
Writer Reg Hudlin on T’Challa and the Future of Black Superheroes
“White superheroes get together all the time. Why can’t black people come together and save people just the same?”